How to Find Your New Favourite Poets (An Experiment in Recognising Poetic Voice) (Patreon)

Today I'm going to give you some tailor-made, bespoke, highly personalised poetry recommendations.

In fact, you're going to give these recommendations to yourself.

All you need to do is listen to a handful of poetry selections in this video and be attentive to where you feel yourself being pulled.

I won't tell you who these ten poets are.

Simply be on the look-out for 2-3 that you like.

Understanding is not key here. You can like these poems for any reason. You can like the sound, the way it looks printed, the imagery, the rhythm, the topic, anything.

Clicking the links below will be like walking through a secret door revealing the poet you like and a volume of their poetry you may wish to pursue.

No cheating! Listen first, then click through. The selections will also come up on the screen so you can read along with me.

THE POEMS

• 05:55 - Poem I
• 07:04 - Poem II
• 08:16 - Poem III
• 09:19 - Poem IV
• 10:00 - Poem V
• 10:48 - Poem VI
• 11:43 - Poem VII
• 13:07 - Poem VIII
• 14:51 - Poem IX
• 16:00 - Poem X

Please share which poems you personally responded to from this selection. It will be interesting to see if there are any collective favourites.

We can also do a round 2 with another selection of poems powerfully charged with meaning.

Happy poetising, everybody!